The Letter Writer

Herman Gombiner, a bachelor of almost 50, is a very sick man. A Jewish refugee whose entire family was killed by the Nazis, Herman is a vegetarian who loves all God's creatures and a mystic who has experienced numerous apparitions, telepathic incidents, clairvoyant visions and prophetic dreams. He corresponds with mystics the world over whose names he has gleaned from occult magazines. When the Jewish publishing house where he works is closed down, Herman becomes increasingly ill and seldom leaves his small West Side apartment. He is alone and dying of pneumonia when one of his correspondents, Rose Beechman of Louisville, Ky. comes to pay him a visit. Mrs. Beechman, a widow, is in frequent contact with her dead grandmother, who has recently told her a man in N.Y. would alter her existence. She nurses Herman back to health at which time her grandmother advises her to stay and take care of him if he will let her. Herman is happy and as he looks around his room bathed in the early morning light, it has all the quality of a revelation.

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